(8541) Schalkenmehren
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Asteroid (8541) Schalkenmehren |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.1800 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0490 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0732 AU - 2.2868 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.7775 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.22 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 20.17 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | October 9, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 TZ 32 , 1954 PQ, 1990 WC 8 , 1995 GT 5 |
| Source: Unless otherwise stated, the data comes from JPL Small-Body Database Browser . The affiliation to an asteroid family is automatically determined from the AstDyS-2 database . Please also note the note on asteroid items. | |
(8541) Schalkenmehren is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 9 October 1993 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory ( IAU code was discovered 809).
The asteroid was named after the local community of Schalkenmehren in the Vulkaneifel , from which a small road leads to the Hoher List observatory on the mountain of the same name.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Schalkenmehren: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Schalkenmehren in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8541) Schalkenmehren in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).